Bringing New Life To A Genre That Has Been Explored Many Times By Others...
Okay, in my last entry I disclosed I was working on a vampire novel. Now this is a genre that has been done and redone so many times it's unbelievable. And almost every time there are new twists and turns added to it that they barely seem to resemble the traditional vampires that Bela Legosi and Christopher Lee made legendary in Hollywood. Today we have vampires that just totally ooze sex appeal, can sparkle in daylight instead of turning to dust, can have sex and produce offspring, are either monsters or saints, etc. And they are still as popular as ever in spite of all the changes to the original legend. Now I'm not just talking about Bram Stoker's "Dracula". That was not the first vampire story. There were many others. If you ever get the opportunity check out "The Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories" and you'll see ones that predate Mr. Stoker's work by quite a few years. But in that collection you'll also meet other kinds of vampire...